Venue: ESSLLI 2022, Galway, Ireland
Date: 15-19 August 2022
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Description:
Imagination has recently entered center stage in semantics and the philosophy of language. While relevant work has focused on diverse aspects of imagination, it has left the particular semantic properties of the verb imagine underexplored. These include the wide selectional flexibility and interesting entailment pattern of imagine, the referential dependence of imagine-complements on experience, and the ability of imagine-reports to encode perspective. Since these properties differ from those of standard responsive predicates, parasitic attitudes, and perspectival expressions, they resist modelling through the familiar semantic tools. [full workshop proposal]
Aims:
Our workshop aims to bring together work on the semantics of imagination that fills this modelling gap. Its master objective is to identify the particular contribution that imagine and (the different constituents in) its complements make to the complex truth-conditions of imagination reports. To achieve this, we will also solicit papers that contrast the semantics of imagine with that of related verbs, esp. remember, dream, and see.
Workshop Topics (non-exhaustive):
Invited Speakers:
We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations on any of the above (or related) topics.
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